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I had a lot of fun drawing the details of the marina, but then found that when I colored everything in that the characters completely disappeared into the complexity. Thank goodness for layers. I use a bunch of layers for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…

This page is very much a continuation of the last update. They are really meant to be displayed as a spread in a book, but I could not figure out how to do that gracefully on the web page. Of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…

The drawing for this page and the next page is an excuse for me to do a big two page spread of Richardson Bay, the Marin and Tiburon peninsulas, and the Golden Gate bridge. The ‘action’ is just Kay and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Another real location, the only gas station that most people consider to be in the town of Sausalito. There really isn’t room for another. On the other hand, there are several places where boats can get gas. It probably says[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…

I always find it somewhat annoying when the characters I am following do actions that make no sense to me. Like female fantasy heroes going into battle with 10 percent of their body covered (or less!), or our sharp capable[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…

A fuser is actually a fusion reactor that you can make at home. High school students have done it. Unfortunately it requires that you put in a lot more power then you get out, because most of the hydrogen that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Tam would actually deconstruct the magnets. By doing some clever tricks with lasers she can actually vaporize the magnets and distill them into their chemical and atomic components. There are a lot of useful elements and compounds that can be[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…

An almost calm page after the last one, which was a little tough to coordinate since the pages will be on the same spread when in book form. This one makes is a little clear that Tam’s understanding of money[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…

This is the most active page so far. A lot of drawing, text, simultaneous story threads. It was a challenge to arrange it all so that it at least has the chance of making sense. Tam of course wouldn’t have[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Here we continue with some of Tam’s internal thinking. Predicting stock-markets can be seen as similar to breaking codes. She doesn’t have to actually make any predictions (though she could), she can do her trades at random, and then realize[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…